Have you ever seen a white object like rice grains on a cat or in its feces? Or a long, squirming, unknown object crawling out of a cat’s anus? This is actually a parasite that cats are often infected with. ——Tapeworm.

Tapeworms are flat and elongated, with their bodies appearing segment by segment. Their head is an adsorbent that can be adsorbed on the cat's intestinal wall to absorb nutrients.

Adult worms in cats can grow up to more than 50 centimeters, but most adult worms are about 20 centimeters long.

After the tapeworm matures, the segments on the body begin to fall off continuously, and are excreted with the feces or directly from the anus, and sometimes they can crawl out directly from the anus...

Cat The tapeworm has a flat abdomen and back, symmetrical sides, and a white or milky white opaque tape-like body. The length of the tapeworm body can range from several millimeters to several meters. The worms parasitize in the cat's body, absorb nutrients, and affect the cat's growth and development. When a large number of worms are parasitized, they can aggregate into clumps and block the intestinal cavity, causing abdominal pain, intestinal volvulus and even intestinal rupture.

Generally speaking, as long as you pay attention to hygiene and wash your hands in time after coming into contact with sick cats, you will not be easily infected. However, the harm of cat tapeworms to people does exist, especially if there are children and the elderly at home, so you need to pay special attention. The elderly and children have relatively low immunity. Infection with tapeworms can cause malnutrition, abdominal pain, diarrhea, anal itching and other adverse symptoms. .

Cats generally have no obvious symptoms in the early stages of tapeworm infection. When there are a large number of tapeworms in the cat’s body, symptoms gradually appear. The cat may have soft stools, diarrhea, loss of appetite, malnutrition, and hair loss of luster. In severe cases, It may also cause perforation of the cat's intestinal wall and induce chronic enteritis.

Most cats become infected with tapeworms by ingesting fleas infected with tapeworm larvae. After fleas ingest tapeworm eggs, the fleas will be parasitized by tapeworm larvae. Fleas are the intermediate hosts of tapeworms. Cats that ingest tapeworm-infected fleas while cleaning their hair will cause cats to be infected with tapeworms. So if you find fleas on your cat, you should also remember to kill cat tapeworms while removing the fleas. Frogs, pigs, etc. may also become intermediate hosts of tapeworms, so it is best not to feed raw meat directly to cats. If you must feed your cat meat, you must choose meat products that come from reliable sources and pass quality inspections. I was really worried, so I cooked it and fed it to the cat.

If you find rice-sized, milky-white bugs near the cat’s anus, and the cat often licks the anus or drags its butt on the ground, it means that the cat is likely to be infected with tapeworms. At this time, you need to take the cat to the doctor promptly to diagnose the condition as soon as possible.

The current drug of choice for the treatment of cat tapeworms is praziquantel. Praziquantel activates slow calcium channels in worm cells and increases the influx of calcium ions, causing the worms to excite, contract and spasm, until spastic paralysis. , and finally flow into the liver with the blood, and are phagocytized and inactivated by liver reticular endothelial cells.

Some of the more famous cat anthelmintic drugs containing praziquantel include Baichongqing, Helemiao and Braine. Both Baichongqing and Hailemiao are oral medicines, which require opening the cat's mouth to feed the medicine. It is relatively difficult to administer the medicine. If there is a slight mistake, there may be a potential risk of being scratched by the cat. Bioline is a topical drop. Just drop the liquid on the skin of the cat's shoulder and neck area. Through unique transdermal absorption technology, the liquid can be directly delivered to the cat's blood, thereby killing the parasite. The purpose of the insect.

In addition, Bioline has a wider repellent spectrum than the other two products. It is the cat anthelmintic with the most comprehensive insect repellent spectrum among mainstream repellent products. In addition to effectively preventing and treating cat tapeworms, it can also kill It can remove dead fleas, flea eggs, larvae and flea pupae, ticks, roundworms, hookworms, lice, ear itch mites, ear scabies mites and other common internal and external parasites without using other anthelmintic drugs. It is very convenient.

Although cat tapeworms are less harmful to humans, they have a great impact on cats’ health. All feces collectors must remember to deworm your cats on time!